Halo is a great way to dive into developing for the semantic web. All you need is some knowledge of PHP. To get started, the following resources are helpful.

Mailing Lists

For SMW users:

To post a message to all list members, send an email to Semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net. (subscribe, archive)

For SMW developers:

To post a message to all list members, send an email to Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. (subscribe, archive)

IRC Channel

Semantic MediaWiki maintains an IRC channel, #semantic-mediawiki, on FreeNode. This channel can be used for discussing all issues related to both Semantic MediaWiki itself and any of its spinoff extensions, like Halo.

You can get there through FreeNode's regular, Javascript-based and Java-based clients.

Accessing IRC

The usual way to access IRC is with an IRC client. Some popular clients include:

• Windows: mIRC, KVIrc, XChat, ChatZilla
• Mac OS X: Colloquy, XChat, ChatZilla
• Linux: Quassel, Irssi, ChatZilla

WebSVN Repository Explore our SVN repository comfortably via your webbrowser. You can watch actual development with logs and compare revisions and stay up-to-date with commits to the repository via rssfeed. Browse the SVN repository or from daily build server

Daily builds

We've setup a build system which builds Halo and its extensions each night (from SVN head) and tests the software automatically. You can download the latest builds there.

Access the build server here: Public Build Server

Learn here how to contribute

• Developer style guide
• How can I check out the latest SMW+ code
• How can I commit
• How can I provide patches for SMW+
• How can I setup Unit- and Webtests for MediaWiki Extensions
• How to use GNU patch

We have installed doxygen to help developers quickly understand the structure of the Halo extension:

• source code documentation of SVN head
• source code documentation of the most recent release (1.4.4)

Alternatively, you may download a compressed version of the code documentation for offline browsing here:

• source code documentation of SVN head
• source code documentation of the most recent release (1.4.4)

Next Generation of Wiki

Here is the place people meet to discuss about the next generation of semantic wikis, particularly related to Halo extension and SMW+.

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Comment:Development/Main Page 20091029093944

milan.m.masek@gmail.com

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29 October 2009 09:39:44

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Mmmm, it seems promising! Thank you.

Comment:Development/Main Page 20091027162944

User:Thomas

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27 October 2009 16:29:44

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Hi Milan,

thanks for your comments on HaloACL. I've already created the patches for MW 1.15.1 and they will be part of the next release. And of course, you are right that the text format in the database tables should be UTF-8. I fixed this as well. Thanks!

Thomas

Comment:Development/Main Page 20091027094223

milan.m.masek@gmail.com

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27 October 2009 09:42:23

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HI, I´ve tested HaloACL with MW 1.15.1 and I can say there is a lot of issues. Anyway your extension looks realy great and would be nice to work on compatibility. Consider change charset for varchar in HaloACL tables creating script - ./extensions/HaloACL/storage/HACL_StorageSQL.php - VARCHAR(255) character set utf8 collate utf8_bin not null.

Thanks for your hardwork. I´m looking forward the next release.

Milan

Comment:Development/Main Page 20090625152808

User:Dominika

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25 June 2009 15:28:08

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I apologize your issues, currently SMW+ and Halo Extension supports only MW 1.13. But within the scope of the latest MW release 1.15, we're starting a testing phase for compatibility.